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We will be using your feedback to improve affiliations as a part of our development for API 3.0. Keep watch on our Current Development Trello board / GitHub for our work on 3.0: https://trello.com/b/iuJwm8A6

Just to give an update on this: Reviewing the contributor roles in the ORCID Registry, and how or where researchers or organisations assert those roles, is a part of our goals in 2017. Watch this space for more information in the coming year.

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Thank you for your suggestion to improve the ORCID Registry. We have been collaborating with Mozilla Science Lab, BioMed Central (BMC), Public Library of Science (PLoS), the Wellcome Trust, and Digital Science, among others, to develop a prototype for assigning badges to individuals based on the contributor role vocabulary developed by Project CRediT in 2015. ORCID will be incorporating these contributor roles into our Registry. For each contribution (such as an article, dataset, or presentation) connected to and displayed on an ORCID record, the record holder will be able to select their role(s) they played from the Project CRediT list.

Contributorship Open Badges is a feature presently available on ORCID records — learn more in the below links.

Just to give an update on this: Reviewing the contributor roles in the ORCID Registry, and how or where researchers or organisations assert those roles, is a part of our goals in 2017. Watch this space for more information in the coming year.

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Thank you for your suggestion to improve the ORCID Registry. We have been collaborating with Mozilla Science Lab, BioMed Central (BMC), Public Library of Science (PLoS), the Wellcome Trust, and Digital Science, among others, to develop a prototype for assigning badges to individuals based on the contributor role vocabulary developed by Project CRediT in 2015. ORCID will be incorporating these contributor roles into our Registry. For each contribution (such as an article, dataset, or presentation) connected to and displayed on an ORCID record, the record holder will be able to select their role(s) they played from the Project CRediT list.

If you want to add a book chapter, you want the title of the collection to appear immediately below your chapter title. This can be done by adding the title of the book to the 'Journal title' section of the manual addition page. Might you change this label to 'Journal or book title'?

We have implemented the first phase of this improvement. Now when you choose a work type related to a non-journal publication, the field display title for “Journal title” will dynamically update to a relevant title, e.g. “Conference title”, “Book title”, and “Publisher”.

There has been an additional call for the form to dynamically update based on the work category selected, e.g. choosing the category “Conference” would change the field display name of “Journal title” to “Conference title”. At present, one must first choose the category “Conference” and then one of the conference work types in order for the title to dynamically update.

We’ll share more news as this feature is further developed. Thanks again for your suggestion and support.

1. The search bar is fairly wide but has very little height and also has very little space above or below it. I found myself accidentally clicking on links in my bookmarks bar above the search box on more than one occasion when trying to search.

2. The magnifying glass 'search' element did not intuitively look like a magnifying glass to me…because of the 'iD' text inside it. I initially thought this might be a shortcut to my ORCID profile page. Maybe just having text that says 'Search' or 'Go' would be less ambiguous?

3. The gear icon is used to access advanced search. In most websites, a gear icon represents a settings menu. I was expecting this icon to reveal some general settings for the site rather than contain advanced search settings.

4. The dropdown menu structure can make it very hard to actually click a submenu link. E.g. if you mouse over 'HELP' you see the four submenu options appear, but to access those you have to move down a few pixels and then directly left. Very easy to move too far downwards (and lose the dropdown menu) or move left (and then enter the ABOUT submenu). This can be a maddening experience :-)

5. It took me a while to find a way of contacting you. The contact us link under 'HELP' is not immediately visible, and the contact us link at the very bottom of the page is small…and if you are on a long page, you will probably never scroll all the way down to see it. I almost feel that 'CONTACT US' merits its own place in the main menu.

Some thoughts from using the website today.

1. The search bar is fairly wide but has very little height and also has very little space above or below it. I found myself accidentally clicking on links in my bookmarks bar above the search box on more than one occasion when trying to search.

2. The magnifying glass 'search' element did not intuitively look like a magnifying glass to me…because of the 'iD' text inside it. I initially thought this might be a shortcut to my ORCID profile page. Maybe just having text that says 'Search' or 'Go' would be less…

Thanks for the suggestions. I’ve passed them on to our development team who are actively working on a new webpage design. We hope to have the new design out in the first quarter of 2016, so check back then.

1.- Aspect: show Search box in another location, shape and colours. It's not obvious that this grey line is the Search box.
2.- More fields in Advanced Search: add affiliation and fields combined with Boolean operators

Since you’ve first submitted this suggestion, we’ve improved the appearance of the search bar, and are now working on the affiliations search. You can follow progress on the Current Development Trello at: https://trello.com/c/7OywbDz8/3102

We have also started working on adding an affiliation search field to the advanced search options: https://orcid.org/orcid-search/search You can find it on the advanced search page, however there is not yet a column which displays the affiliation listing in the search results.

Since plain oauth for accessing the API is primarily for authorization, it would be great to be able to use ORCID as an authentication provider with an open standard as OpenID Connect. Users could then easily log into other research platforms using their ORCID account.

We are glad to let you know that ORCID is adding support for OpenID and we would like your help testing it.

OpenID Connect is a simple identity layer on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol. It supplements existing OAuth authentication flows and provides information about users to clients in a well-described manner. ORCID provides the Basic OpenID Provider conformance profile: a new openid scope is available for our beta testers, which can be used as part of the existing authentication flow and will result in an OpenID token being returned with the access token. For further information, see: https://members.orcid.org/api/news/beta-testers-wanted-orcid-openid-connect

We encourage that all interested parties join the beta test to provide feedback. OpenID support is available for both member and public API clients. If you’re interested in helping test OpenID support, please contact support@orcid.org

Currently ORCID end-users must grant an API either all/none access to their data based on pre-existing security/privacy settings. Please allow the Oauth2 "scope" parameter to "request" access to specific data elements which the ORCID/end-user could then say yes/no to on a per-request (authorization) basis.

We are still looking into allowing a user to grant access to only a select number of requested scopes on the OAuth form.

Current status:

API clients which are requesting access can request scopes in piecemeal, e.g. only granting access to obtain an ORCID iD and read public data, only granting access to read trusted party-level data, only granting access to add information to the activities section, or only granting access to add information to the biographical section.

Clients can also request access to all areas of the ORCID record at once, and then use refresh tokens (https://members.orcid.org/api/oauth/refresh-tokens ) to limit granted permissions. For example, if a user grants permission to read trusted party data and update the activities, then the API client can choose to limit those permissions to only read trusted party data.

We are still looking into allowing a user to grant access to only a select number of requested scopes on the OAuth form.

Current status:

API clients which are requesting access can request scopes in piecemeal, e.g. only granting access to obtain an ORCID iD and read public data, only granting access to read trusted party-level data, only granting access to add information to the activities section, or only granting access to add information to the biographical section.

Clients can also request access to all areas of the ORCID record at once, and then use refresh tokens (https://members.orcid.org/api/oauth/refresh-tokens ) to limit granted permissions. For example, if a user grants permission to read trusted party data and update the activities, then the API client can choose to limit those permissions to only read trusted party data.

We are still working on this issue. We’ve corrected it with Scopus so no more errors like this will be imported in the Registry and are now working on clean up existing records with this problem.
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Sorry for our delay in responding to this bug. We are working to correct this error, but the developer we’ve worked with at Scopus has been on long term leave so we haven’t been able to resolve the issue as quickly as we had hoped. I will update you when this bug is fixed and I appreciate you bringing it to our attention.